Former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reuben Abati, has criticised Bola Ahmed Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), for saying that the 2023 election is going to be a revolution.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Abati, a broadcaster with Arise Television, was reacting to Tinubu’s statement in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Wednesday where the APC candidate made claims about alleged plots to scuttle the general elections.
Tinubu said the scarcity of fuel being experienced across the country and the redesign of the naira were part of the plot to sabotage the polls.
But he assured his supporters, thousands of whom attended the rally, that neither the elections nor his own victory can be stopped.
“This is a revolution. This election is a revolution. We shall take over from them. They don’t want election to take place, but we won’t accept. They want to hide under fuel scarcity to cause the crisis so that there won’t be an election,” Tinubu had said.
Reacting, Abati wondered how Tinubu would be talking about a ‘revolution’ in respect of the 2023 election when he already made that promise in 2015.
“Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu says the next election is going to be a major revolution. ‘Vote them out, take power from them’. He is saying they should take power from his own party. I mean, that is contradictory” Abati said on The Morning Show recently.
“He (Tinubu) said he will do a revolution in Nigeria. He told his people [that] what is coming is a massive revolution in Nigeria. The same massive revolution that he promised in 2015. He led the campaign. He said he put President Muhammadu Buhari there, and they promised all kinds of revolution. One Naira to one dollar, we have not seen that revolution. So, what is the guarantee that the revolution that he promised in Abeokuta will happen?
“He was telling his audience, ‘if they don’t give us fuel, we will trek’. Who is going to trek?”
